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Article: ENVIRONMENT: BATTLE TO SAVE THE PLANET'S CORAL REEFS
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- May 26, 1997
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Moyiga Nduru
Inter Press Service English News Wire
05-26-1997
LONDON, May 25 (IPS) -- The planet's 600,000 square kilometers
of coral reefs, largely hidden beneath the surface of the seas and
scattered through the world's tropical and sub tropical seas, are
being destroyed at a frightening pace, according to a new report
by an international environmental group based here.
The group, known as Planet 21, has published in its May issue
of "'People and the Planet"' magazine a 35-page report as a
contribution to The International Year of the Reef which has been
called to try and stem the destruction of coral resources.
In the report, coral reef expert, Clive Wilkinson, warns that
70 percent of the ...